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R. C. WHITEHOUSE.

Frying Pan.

No. 75,095. Patented March 3,1868.

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Letters Patent No. 15,095, dated March 3, 1868! IMPROVEMENT IN rRYIne rANs.

op Stimuli patent to in. time Zhttm Extent mm mating part it its game WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I I Beitknown'that I, RALPH C. WHITEHOUE, of Boothbay, in the county of Lincoln, and State of Maine, have invented a'new and useful Improved Frying-Pan; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description-thereof, which will enable others to inake and use my invention, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, in'n'hich- I Figure l-is' a frontriew of my inventio'n,showing the interior. surfaces of.the'two fry-pans, and the manner in whieh'the pens are connected. I p i Figure 2 is a sectional elevation, showing'both the position of the pans-when closed upon each other, and also, in dotted lines, the upper pan when opened or turnedback' from the other. i

The object of my invention is to procuregreater" ease and rapidity in the process of frying fritters, &c., and to obviate the various-objections to which the method new pursued to accomplish this result is open. It is well known that the labor of frying fritters, so-ealled, or other articles of food of a like nature, is considerable, owing to the fact that with the ordinary frypan, as at present constructed, bntasingle fritter. or other likearticleican be cooked at a time, and in preparing food of this description for the consumption of a number of persons, as at a boarding-house, &c., some tilne is required to cook a sufiicient quantity. It is also of some importance that the fritters first cooked should not becornc, cool while others are-undergoing the some process, as it is desirable that they should be. eatenwhile stillfqnite warm, or they will'become tough, and in some degree indigestible. Where largev quantities are. to be prepared, extra precaution is required to avoid this, with the old form of pan and method of cooking. I

' y inventing which I will now proceed to'deseribc in detaih'with the manner of its operation, is intended to prevent this liability to cool in some measure. I

1 construct my invention as follows: Let'a and b. r epresont frying-pans of theordinary" form, but connected with each other by a hinge, c, at d, so as to admit. of theirjbeing freely turned on'and oil each' other. when turned one upon the other, the only point of contact of the pans is around the external edge or" rim, as at e, fig. 2. y

.The op eration .ofthy invention is as follows; .The pans are. placed upon the stove or other cookingapparatu's open, and a sufiieicnt quantity of batter to form'ope fritter is placed in one of them, for example, in a, while bis-left empty, and-allowed to become heated by the action of the fire. The batter is allowed toicoolg brown upon the .under side, or that next thobottoinhf-thdpan in which it has been; placed, which is doneiri a short time. .Meanwhile, another s'ufiici'ont quantity of ba tter.'has been taken from the receptacle thcrefor,.and as soon-as the frit'ter in a, is browned, it is transferred to o, by gently turning over the pans so as to bring I: underneath, and by this tneansth-eiothcr side olthe frittcr is exposed to the operation of the heat. Then the pans are opened, and the material forthe second frittcr placed in a, where it is allowed to become brown on one side as in the case of the' preceding one. By. tho-time this is accomplished the fritter in b is cooked sufliciently and is then removed to the dish prepared for its rocoption,'and the fritter in a is made to take its place by inverting the pans, as before dcscribed,-a-nd then another quantity of batter is again placed/in a toundergo thesaale'proc'ess. By this method of cooking one side in a, th'cn transferring to li, by which transfer the other or. u ncool ed side is exposed to the direct action/of the heat, it. is evident that fritters, &.e., can. be cooked much i more rapidly and coavenientlv than in the'old, way, as two are kept cooking at the same time. About half the time neeessary-to cool: a given number of cakes by a single pan is required in my method. v

v I do not claim an egg-cooker, as set forth in the patent of' W. Loucks, No. 48,190, Juno.13, 1865, viz, two plates of. metal made to fold together, to revolvexlike a gridiron, and each having cup-shaped recesses to receive the eggs.- Neither do I claim the gridllle of Edwin A. Jefl'roy, Patent No. 68,202, August 21', 1867, to'wit, the combination of a rim, a fixed plate, and-a hingeil plate, the latter having certain recesses therein. My invention, difl'ercnt from these, consists of two frying-pans, each having a handle, and also united by a hinge, the hinge being placed-on a side'of the circle atthc extremity of. a diaznetcrat'right angles to one drawn through the eirclc'in the same direction as the handles, the twohandles, whenthe pans are closed, being together, one

- above the other, and when the pans are to he opened, acting as levers to open the same. By this means I secure the peculiar operation I have betoreulescribed'. p v v w What I claim as myvinvcntio'n, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, like. 7 v The combination and arrangement of the two pans a, b, nnited by the hinge c, and h ving thehandles arranged as herein set forth. for, the purposesxleseribed. i

RALPH 'C. WHI'lElIO USE.

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